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i've managed to create a port of the TWRP 2.5.0.0. Since it is a port of the Xperia T smartphone, it can't get officially support by the TWRP team, so don't bother them with questions regarding this wonderfull peace of software when installed on a Cloudmobile.

Tested on a S500 with 8260a-3 CPU and 8260a-1 CPU. Do not flash it on a Locked phone, it will not boot!

When installing this recovery I can take no blame if you accidentely brick your phone......I'm just sorry if that happens but I can do nothing about it.

If you follow the instructions, nothing bad should happen with your phone....

Screenshots:

Features:

- Fully touch featured!

- Screensaver with slide to unlock

- Fully themeable

- Backup and restore

- Wipe device/factory reset

- Install ROM from .zip file

- Auto detect if ROM is rooted, if it isn't rooted it will sugest you to install CWM Superuser app and binary

To run TWRP on a locked S500; enable USB debug and connect phone to PC via USB cable:

adb reboot-bootloader

wait until phone is rebooted in bootloader, then:

fastboot -i 0x0502 boot TWRP_2.5.0.0_S500_v1.3.img

This will run TWRP, it doesn't flash it. You can safely try and use TWRP. The only disadvantage is that battery % is not properly displayed.
On unlocked bootloaderyou can safely flash the TWRP recovery to the recovery partition:

adb reboot-bootloader

Wait until phone is rebooted in bootloader, then:

fastboot -i 0x0502 flash recovery TWRP_2.5.0.0_S500_v1.3.img

To reboot:

fastboot reboot (and press vol-down at the same time, wait until the phone vibrates and then press vol-up while releasing vol-down)

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Nice work...backing up system now....I like the interface much more than CWM's....Backing up seems to work fine, didn't test the other features yet, but it looks promising so far. Can we flash that so it's permanent, like the workaround we have to do for CWM?

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Nice work...backing up system now....I like the interface much more than CWM's....Backing up seems to work fine, didn't test the other features yet, but it looks promising so far. Can we flash that so it's permanent, like the workaround we have to do for CWM?

It seems (in linux) that the drive can be mounted (/dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 shows up) but when trying to mount it says that the drive can't be recognized. I think that above dmesg message illustrates the problem. Does anyone know how I can solve it? I enabled mass_storage in the init script for the Android composite driver.
Another solution is to enable mtp, but how do I configure that in a recovery environment?
This is my recovery log where LUN is configured: